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In July, Tomita brought a copy of his exit card when he returned to the camp for an annual pilgrimage. He wants future generations to be able to visit this treasured site for Japanese-Americans.
βBecause they dumped us there,β he said. βLike it or not, it is our sacred land."
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Japanese Americans were jailed in a desert. Survivors worry a wind farm will overshadow the past.
In the vast, high desert of southern Idaho is a place called Minidoka. After Japanβs Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, this is where the U.S. government incarcerated over 13,000 Japanese American men, women and children as security risks because of their ancestry. Eight decades later, another government decision looms as a new threat β a wind project pilgrims with ties to the site worry will destroy the experience they want to preserve. If approved, the wind farm would put up 400 turbines near Minidoka, and survivors say it's another attempt to bury the past.